Nebraska Library Commission Website

If you have any further questions please contact
Sally Snyder; Phone: 800-307-2665.

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NEST College Savings Plan Scholarship Drawing

Librarians want to help your Summer Reading Program patrons win money for
college?
After they have completed your library's
Summer Reading Program they will be eligible to win one of fifteen $529
NEST College Savings Scholarships (see announcements below). Five will be
awarded in each of Nebraska's three congressional districts. In addition the
library of each winner will also win $250! Put up the poster (below) below to let
your summer readers know about this investment.

The Summer Reading, NEST 529 Read to Win Contest will run May 15,
2017 through August 23, 2017.

Here is your file for submitting children and teen names for the
scholarship drawing, click: Excel and
save the file to your hard drive. Please note there are 2 tabs in the file,
one is instructions, and the other is where you can type the contestants'
names. When you have accumulated the names from
your SRP please send an electronic version of the file back to Sally Snyder, sally.snyder @ nebraska.gov.
The deadline is 11:59:59 p.m., CT, on August 25, 2017.

If you are unable to use the Excel file, you may list the
children's and teens' names, with their phone numbers or parents' email
addresses, in the body of an email and send it to Sally Snyder.

NEST 2014 Winners of the $529 scholarship are posted on the Nebraska State
Treasurer's web page:
https://treasurer.nebraska.gov/news/2014/1030/.
Libraries of the winners are: Beatrice Public Library, Grand Island Public
Library, Hastings Public Library, Pierce Public Library, Lincoln City
Libraries, and Omaha Public Library.